The Green New Deal's multiple threats to property rights and individual liberty vindicate our friend Tom DeWeese's many warnings that "smart growth" and the UN's Agenda 21 were just the beginning of the Left's war on private property and the idea of limited constitutional government.

“The chaotic growth of cities will be replaced by a dynamic system of urban settlement…The region is formed by the economic interdependence of its development, from the industrial complex to the industrial region. The region has a single system of transportation, a centralized administration, and a united system of education and research.” Alexei Gutnov, The Ideal Communist City

The forgotten working folks who voted for Donald Trump are seeing the benefit of his economic policies in more hours at the factories and other businesses that employ them, higher wages and more job security in the outlook for new orders.

Nearly every policy during the Obama years was anti-growth — tax increases, minimum wage hikes, Obamacare, Dodd-Frank regulations, massive debt spending, the Paris Climate Change accord, an EPA assault against American energy, massive expansions of programs like food stamps and disability — and on and on. If Mr. Trump is able to to shift those policies into reverse — especially by getting tax rates down, not up — 3 to 4 percent growth is easily achievable and the economics profession will be proven dead wrong again.